Comments on: Camouflage: Which is the rattlesnake? Which is the gopher snake? http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2010/08/10/camouflage-which-is-the-rattlesnake-which-is-the-gopher-snake/ Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:33:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bryan Hughes http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2010/08/10/camouflage-which-is-the-rattlesnake-which-is-the-gopher-snake/comment-page-1/#comment-5085 Bryan Hughes Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:57:17 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/?p=1809#comment-5085 Well, you can see the rattle on the top guy. Good eye on Mr. Murphy.

I should say as well that rattlesnakes are ‘venomous’ and not ‘poisonous’. I know it may seem like semantics, but these are terms that refer to method of toxin delivery. Poison is a passive system, injested or absorbed, while venom is actively injected into the bloodstream.

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